Bacon Battalion RPG My witch, Claudette Morellas, was born to a branch in a lower noble family in the capital city of Absalom. She moved to a castle along the gulf shore to live with an older handmaiden and bodyguard when her father, a local adventurer had left to assist guards with orc invasions from the southern most country. Her mother died mysteriously in the night, quietly and without warning and the grief left her father, crippled by war, a great deal colder. She spent the time taking care of him and fulfilling her duties as the matriarch to her family at the young age of twelve. After some time learning of her touch from her healing patron and her thrush familiar, she was rewarded with the power to heal supernaturally. Her handmaiden seeing this, took it upon herself to train her in alchemy. Knowing it would aid her in her altruism. Once her father passed, she left her home to help those she could find. Leaving her inheritance, her alchemy teacher, bodyguard, and betrothed to seek greater understanding of her powers as a Hedge Witch. Hoping to find a cure or reason for the untimely death of her mother, and for any other person taken before their time.

Well, I've been married long time ago

He came to town like a midwinter storm

*slow clap in back ground*

STI song lmao

he came into town with a big Iron on his hip ;)

+Pi-hilist In a way the Pathfinder videos are like narrating wildlife lol. Thank you so much appreciate the compliment.

+Bacon Battalion RPG Wait! You should make Monster Manual documentaries! Lol

"And here we can see the mother carrion crawler and her young. It's the dry season and corpses are rare as adventuring parties remain in taverns, avoiding the noonday's heat. It is a perilous time for her and her kits, and if she doesn't find a peasant soon, she will have only once choice... she will devour her own." :)

Now I want to watch wildlife documentaries about fantasy creatures. Like seriously, we put all this effort into our characters and settings... why not the creatures getting some love? :)

Bacon Battalion RPG if we are all getting a go... " the small hob goblin sneaks through the bushes, spying on the low level party. Suddenly, he strikes out- murdering their magic user which for some reason was sitting at the front. The barbarian strikes with his brutal chair leg- he sold his axe for a door. He smacks the their behind him instead- the their falling backward, killing the bard behind him as his snide falls out of the sheath it was in- a long sword sheath . The barbarian is now left by himself, and does what any logical barbarian would do, try and use healing magic. The barbarian is then stabbed through the hearts, and collapses in a puddle of blood. This is what we call the hobgoblin. He is now charged with bringing the bodies back."

...what's the maximal speed of a swallow...? ;-)

African or European?

I dunno?

Aaaaaaaaaahhh

Also important question especially the third one

adrien ennis 😂

*TRUE* 1 - Unknown 2 - Dunno 2a - N/A 3 - see character class 4 - N/A 5 - N/A 6 - that's easy: to *level and loot*

Thank you for doing this! It's amazing. How to cut a tutorial from 20 mins down to 7 sentences lol. I appreciate your effort here and I'm glad you like the video!

No problem. I have a lot of time on my hands currently, so I'll probably be doing it for some of your other videos.

Bacon Battalion RPG When someone makes a helpful comment like this, you should pin it to the top, I believe you're able to do that. This would prevent the need to scroll through comments.

***** Darn Skippy! 😊

I didn't have much luck in finding good D&D games due to bad DMs which I posted about on another Vid. This one is about my Favorite Character and I pretty much used a similar approach to the one in this video when I made but this is also how my DM ruined him for me. 1) Place of Birth Unknown (Per DM rules as he hinted at all the characters would be linked to some Dark Deity who banged a lot of woman. 2) Assumed to be traveling Merchants as was rescued by traveling monks trying to defend a group of travelers being attacked by bandits. Being the only survivor with no known living relatives the monks took in the toddler with them. 3) Character spent his life living in mountain monastery being raised and training with the monks. 4) Like all the ofter character they got a summons from an important individual in the Kingdom. 5) He left behind the quiet remote monastery to the big city. 6) Character had always wanted to explore and spent a lot of time sneaking out to exploring the local mountains(had high stealth/climb/survival skills) but for some reason the monks would never let him join their trade expeditions to nearby towns for supplies. So he jumped at the chance for the invitation. I envisioned the character as more of the Asian movie monks with slightly supernatural powers along with expert hand to hand fighting skills and ability to grab anything as an improvised weapon. To do it I made a multiclass monk, it's been a long time since I played so I'll probably get a few names of things wrong but from what I recall it was a Monk/Ardvent(Psionic Class) as we started at level 3. Being someone who likes to dive into the rules of any game I play, I understood monks suffer from MAD and in general reference from a lot of people I've talked to in online chats and forums the monk is one of the weakest classes unless done in curtain ways in which case he can be fairly decent but still won't measure up against a decent builds in most other class not even bringing in the MIN/MAX setups. Anyway I mapped out how I wanted the character to work up to level 15 because the DM implied he had a long term campaign lined up. I knew there was issues right at the start when the DM demanded I lose most of the gear I bought at the start of the game because he claims my character lived a "sheltered" life and wouldn't know what to get like the 100 foot or rope and climbing gear typical adventures might use to explore caves and dungeons. My reply was my character grew up in the mountains, had high climbing skill which I put points into so it's not unreasonable for him to think scaling difficult terrain would be common. He begrudgingly let me keep only 20 feet of rope?!? My character also bought a ton of other items like can-trips, marbles, and etc (don't recall what else). My argument was, ONE I'm a monk and don't really "need" much, and TWO I'm basically a rural kid in the city with more money than I ever seen and I've course I'm gonna buy up a bunch of nick knacks at the local shops as both souvenirs and was probably talked into buying much of it by a merchant who saw him as an easy mark. Out of Character we were given funds equal to what a level 3 should have so everyone could equip but momks don't need much so I had no real plans for the stuff I just figured let's buy as much as we can reasonably carry and see if it comes in handy which I figure would be similar to my characters line of thought. Plus most of it was cheap anyway. But the DM telling me what my character could and could not do right from the start really rubbed me the wrong way. It got worst along the way when at later levels he told me I couldn't take curtain feats which we key to the synergy of my character's theme and is failing to understand how Psionic Classes work completely stripped my character of his full potential despite the fact that it was key to the party's survival since my character was the ONLY one with any healing abilities in our group. And the Psionics don't have very good healing choices to begin with. It was original a combination of using my own life force to heal while having another ability that was a self heal. I was on the verge of quitting but the group disbanded before that happen because other players stopped logging in on game night (playing online using TS as Chat and a D&D Map Program), probably due to him meddling with their characters as well. ... D&D has always interested me but never had any luck finding a good group. I know my personality tends to be that of Ruler's Lawyer due to my time with wargaming. But with D&D I don't know all the supplemental materials that well and every time I played I went for a theme of a character while trying the keep his stats such that they could hold their own. I was never the strongest in the party and in 2 cases (one above included) I was easily the weakest person in the party due to DM house ruling how my abilities worked because they assumed I was trying to do some crazy MIN/MAX cross class OP trickery since they didn't know the rules that well. At this point sadly I'm so leery of it because I can recall exactly all the campaigns I've played(which wasn't many) and the reasons each fell apart. Videos on the types of bad DMs are like a listing to me of each of the campaigns I played in. I can't imagine myself ever giving it another try, but I still like to watch from the side lines viewing all the interesting stories and fun I know I'll never have. EDIT: Even though it's been like 2-3 years while watching other videos I remembered that since the Monk Char was done online and I backup most stuff I should have his stats somewhere, took about 5 minutes to locate and here is the general list of them. It's clearly not a char trying to min/max or go OP since I don't even have a stat over 16 yet the DM though I was. We used point buy system for char creation which is what points refer to as I just copy paste this stuff from the txt file I was using as my char sheet during character creation. The stats as we went to level 5 were tracked in the D&D table app we used and couldn't find any list of those since stopped after level 5 because half the group stopped showing up, started with 6 players too. Level 2 Monk / Level 1 Ardent (Lvl 3) HP 23 Stat/Points/Mod Str 14 6 +2 Dex 14 6 +2 Con 12 4 +1 Int 12 4 +1 Wis 15 8 +2 Cha 8 0 -1 Init + 2 (Dex 14) Fort +5 (Con 12) Reflex +6 (Dex 14) Will +8 (Wis 15) AC 10 +2 DEX +2 WIS = 14 Touch AC 10 +2 DEX +2 WIS = 14 BAB +1 (Flurry -1/-1) Attacks Attack Dmg Critical Range Increment Crossbow, light +3 1d8 19-20/×2 80 ft. Quarterstaff +3 (+1/+1) 1d6/1d6+2 ×2 Unarmed +4 (+2/+2) 1d6+4 I had Weapon Specialization Unarmed +2 Dmg feat which is why I got +4 instead of just STR boost on my unarmed.

...indeed... ...not only D+D... ...i.m.h.o. numbers (and dices) are vastly overrated in ANY P+P-R.P.G...!

D&D itself could be soundly argued to be a numbers game, the rules only suggest that you *might* want to roleplay and nothing in the rules enforces roleplaying. Other games could definitely be said to be roleplay focused, but D&D is perfectly functional and whole as a dice game. Of course for most of us it is greatly enriched by roleplaying. But we shouldn't dismiss those who want to play it as a dice game.

New name for D&D: Dice *and Dialogue*

@@Sanctor95 yeah I was going to say. A mathematician made d&d not a writer. More power to you if you appreciate rp more than the g, but it's about something different for every table.

@@colinsmith1495 Thats good... This is really good lmao

guess it depends on who you play with

I used to play like that, numbers, numbers, numbers. That was 25 years ago. Now I more interesting in creating a fictitious person living and function in a fictional world.

My character is the soul of a powerful lich who has been sealed into a corpse. The seals are made of strange, black, stretchy substance that wrap around his chest and limbs and head. The substance is what we today call, trash bags.

Questionable Life Choices plastic!

@@bettycharms Polyethylene, I.e plastic, i.e garbage bags lmao

And so it shall feel that way for some time - until you get used to the idea of how to do it, until those questions become second nature. Don't stress, I've been doing this for 20+ years. We can however all get to the place where it seems 'easy'.

You'll start to see traits in other characters from movies and what not, and say, dude that's awesome, but what if...?

Don't worry about it. Be the character that happens at the table. Backstories only get busted. Amnesiacs make the best D&D characters, especially if they never try to regain their memories. Just kill the monsters, loot the corpses, and burn down the tavern.

@@vincejester7558 That's not really my playstyle but to each their own.

Given this is a Call of Cthulhu game, probably on a slab in a morgue or a sanitorium.

@@oz_jones 🤫 SPOILERS

Well that's all this video is doing is helping people who maybe don't have answers, or who wouldn't think to have these answers. By having them it just means you know your character which is a good thing! :)

Same here, for all characters I've created over the past 20 years.

Frank Robins, Jr. oddly enough, in the campaign im in now, the first thing the dm did with me for character creation was essentially answering these questions

I had an answer to all but one of these- Motivation. I don't really know what my character wants yet, but I suppose just in action I will eventually develop this, as I've already got plenty of personality built up on their past- perhaps there'll be a focus on surrivival, or finding another tribe or party to call home: I guess for the moment he's as uncertain as I am, just searching for answers, and going with the flow of events until then.

Yeah me too

I had a ranger with a similar story; she was the seventh of eight children in a large farming community, most of whom she was distantly related to. She left her community to go adventuring because adventurers are too busy adventuring to need a dowry.

Even if your character has some cliche elements they will still be more interesting then if you didn’t add back elements at all. Had a character who became an adventurer to do good and promote justice. Not simply because he was a good man but because of what he considered his greatest failure. In a low point of his life he he yelled at his son over something minor he shouldn’t have reacted so harshly to. His son ran off and got himself killed trying stop a pair of thugs. His motivation as a hero is to try to be man his son would have wanted him to be. This I turn provides other elements to his character such as a soft spot for children or that his personal guilt could be used against him. Even gave new elements to how he would would react to other characters. He would react protectively to younger of more innocent characters and would give a cold shoulder to more roguish characters because he sees the men how killed his son in them. Gives a starting point for a personality and for some ways the character good grow as a character for better or worse

"Oh, you're character is super special and has a prophecy to fulfill? How unoriginal!" If they weren't special; why would I be telling their story?

@@rhiannonlamothe2769 Think about it: most people going on adventures (or just going through life, really) aren't all that special. Most people have had horrible things happen to them, which can be used in a backstory, but it's unlikely for your character to be "the chosen one."

@@robrockstar9648 Interesting characters DO interesting things. They don't spent hours telling you how interesting they are. Nobody, but nobody cares about other players' tropey back stories. They care about how you are gonna help them kill the hungry Owl bear with lasers attached to its nipples.

​@@vincejester7558 Well *you* don't care, but don't tell people how they should play their games. If your fun is killer hobo mode killing and looting with a big "skip" to every lore scene, well so long as you find a DM and a group of people who are in for that, fine. But that's not what everyone is about. If you go at someone else's table and say "you guys are ridiculous trying to build characters with actual stories and psychological motives" well then just why ? Also having a good backstory giving you motives doesn't mean that you need to spill it at the first few minutes of the game. You can discover this progressively, and then other characters get to discover the reasons why yours tends to think/act like that in some situations. And that, for someone into it, is gonna be *real* interesting.

zis playce is cuuuurs't!

I am delighted that you feel this way about the channel! I owe my manner of speaking to my grandmother and mother who ensured that I spoke as they wanted me to speak. I am especially glad you like the videos!

I was a bit traumatised when he said the entire world revolved around us because he sounds like the narrator from The Stanley Parable

well said

We played in a medieval setting and I chose a squire (lower nobility). His key flaw was how constantly angry and butthurt he was (in-character ofc), this led to interesting interactions with the team and gradual changes.

+Equeon 2000 views is in my opinion 2000 players and GM's hopefully inspired to tell better stories. We'd all like more views so thank you for your comment. I hope you get some awesome characters out of this :)

Equeon i

Up to 54000+ views already.

207k now

Oioi

Thanks for the comment and thank your DM for us. Let us know how your game goes :)

Written backstory? like a homework assignment? How many pages were you required to fill? Did you need footnotes and bibliography?

@@vincejester7558 you could call it that, yeah. He didn't give me a specific set of rules (other than that is should work in the DnD universe) or an amount of pages. It was quite light hearted and I can enjoy writing from time to time, so it was nice to do.

@@robbe2000 Too many authors in D&D. I think players should save the backstories for themselves and their diaries. How much fun do you have going to the club with someone who is constsntly talking about themselves. Imagine how much worse it would be if they kept trying to convince you how cool and tragic they were all night.

@@vincejester7558 🤔 I'm not sure if I get what you're trying to say. The way we play DnD our so called tragic or cool pasts don't come up very often. I have to admit, I added one key experience that may have been a bit much, but I don't think it was ever mentioned during a session.

Same

Awesome! Must be a pleasure having you in the group - as so often those answers cannot be found on character sheets.

I approve :)

David Folsom Is it "pretty much" or is it EXACT?

Language

The distinction of "demon" is one that I think he was filtering through the lens of the "missionaries in 18xx" character concept he was talking about. Most non-Christian religious figures in those times (or any time prior) would have been regarded as such (at least to Christians themselves). I hope this helped.

Yeah I understand

Okay, it's an old thread... and (as usual?) I'm late to the party... BUT a distinction should be pointed out here. In the vid' even that he referenced "demons" and Aztec myth'... He was referencing through the ideology of the Game scenarios from Call of Cthulu (based mostly from H.P. Lovecraft/Necronomicon sources)... So it's not going to be much in the lines of accurate or precise about Aztecian mythos, outside of a relative notion that there was something to source the "old stories" you might here in South America from "actual" creatures of one variety or another in the Lovecraftian (or related) texts... This is more relevant to creating a character who might know of the Aztec's, but the player doesn't have to... so if you do, you can only help a game you're thoroughly involved in. (like answering questions where the GM "gets stuck" in explaining something... or where your knowledge can add bredth and depth to the story or scene at the time.) There's also plenty of fun to be had, sticking the GM "on the spot" from time to time... if you like watching him/her squirm. :o)

And here I was coming just to argue pedantically that Brazil is the wrong place to search for Quetzalcoatl. =P

We very seldom have the capacity to influence our backgrounds. But it is a valid point you raise!

Bacon Battalion RPG That wasn't sarcastic. What I mean is so often players try to define their characters by the things they can do, or what they own, rather than their experiences. These questions fill in a lot of the blanks.

Oh ... my bad... I was in a mood this morning when I read your comment :) Glad it was me who was mistaken! Hugs?

NP Good videos btw.

+xXSenSenSenXx My English teacher - Mrs. McMichael - thanks you. And I thank her :) Glad to keep it interesting.

Awesome! Let us know how the campaign goes?

Bacon Battalion RPG Why of course no problem. Hopefully I won't fumble through it to bad...

Oh that's what he said. I give it a belated groan.

+Durza Durza You are my hero! I agree! More publicity - that would mean more players and GM's having fun! Quick question - would it be better if it was all on one channel?

I dunno, the separation is nice in my opinion. Its nice being able to say "Okay, PC's go to this channel, and DMs go to this one!" But that's just me.

Thank you - opinion noted and added to the pool!

Bacon Battalion RPG Glad I could help!

Agreed!!

Just too bad about the sequals... The thrid one had me wanting to smack my head repeatedly against a steel door.

It's really bad when I enjoyed the direct-to-DVD Scorpion King series more than the third Mummy sequel. At least *those* copped to being action movie schlock.

I want to be a librarian. xD

The new one sucks.

+Malboras112 If it helps improve the fun at the table, let it rub! :)

+ZeNightmare1001 Your words, my hands. Glad this is working for you!

Only a pleasure! Welcome to the table! Feel free the share the vids with your friends, I can only hope they'd help you have an awesome game! Let us know how it goes?

Robin Payne how did it go?

Thank you for watching! And welcome to the table! Love new subscribers!

this is amazing! how awesome an example of the power of this game when we just sit and ask questions! thank you for sharing! let us know how it goes as I think this sounds like a model game to watch!

That's so awesome to hear! And thank you for creating these fun and inspiring video's for us to enjoy and learn from. It'll be just a few weeks before I start off my very first campaign and already I can barely contain my excitement! ^^

That is really awesome! I hope they are helpful at improving your gaming experiences! Thank you for watching :) If you have any questions let us know, we can add them to the pool!